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Inkcups is happy to announce that we have updated our polymer plate-making exposure times for garment tag printing on our website! The new update features a colorful new chart of exposure times for all of our alcohol wash and water wash pad printing plates. After years of testing, the techs at Inkcups have perfected a

Customized iPhone cases and the XJET seem like a match made in heaven! This UV LED printer is capable of printing a ton of these at a very rapid pace (about 20 cases in 90 seconds!) One of the best parts about printing on the XJET is that it can handle variable data. Meaning you

Here at Inkcups, we are always working to make the lives of our customers easier. One less thing to worry about is always a great thing! We have created two artwork sizing templates to ensure your image will fit within the diameter of the pad printing ink cup. One template is designed for use with

Inkcups is a company of many services, one of which is creating a custom pad printing part fixture. Our engineers can create a fixture based on a customer’s specifications or, as in this instance, create one from molding the part. ICN’s custom molds are intended to fit your part flawlessly in order to prevent it

Update for July 2022: The Cobalt 1000 has been discontinued and replaced with the CobaltONE. The CobaltONE is only used for etching plates or cliches for pad printing. If laser engraving is needed, the Cobalt PRO is a better alternative. The Cobalt1000 fiber laser is an excellent piece of machinery. It is capable of etching

“Can I Etch Laser Plates with my CO2 Laser?” – This is a very common question we get from pad printing companies. Indeed, if a company already has a robust laser engraver, it may be able to enjoy the benefits of fully digitized pad printing plate-making – simply by purchasing the laser plate material and getting some instruction. The